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Dark Command is a 1940 Crime western film starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne and Walter Pidgeon loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War.
- Helen MacKellar
Helen MacKellar (February 13, 1895 – August 5, 1966) [1] was...
- Porter Hall
Hall's Broadway credits included The Great Gatsby (1926),...
- Raymond Walburn
Raymond Walburn (September 9, 1887 – July 26, 1969) was an...
- Helen MacKellar
Dark Command: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers. In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Raoul Walsh
- 1940-04-15
Dark Command is a 1940 American western movie directed by Raoul Walsh and based on the novel by W. R. Burnett. It stars John Wayne , Claire Trevor , Walter Pidgeon , Roy Rogers , George "Gabby" Hayes , Porter Hall , Marjorie Main and was distributed by Republic Pictures .
Loosely based around a true story, Dark Command sees John Wayne play Bob Seton, an uneducated cowboy from Texas who wins around the people of Lawrence, Kansas to become their town Marshall just prior to the outbreak of the civil war.
In 1861, William Cantrell, a schoolteacher with a burning ambition to become a leader of men, becomes embittered when he is defeated for the post of marshall of Lawrence, Kansas by Bob Seton, an unlettered but honest cowboy. Despite his mother's pleas to remain honest, Will decides to build his empire on the clandestine running of guns and ...
- Raoul Walsh, Kenneth Holmes
- Claire Trevor
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders. When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas, he finds much to like about the place--especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker, but politics is in the air: it's ...
Dark Command is a 1940 Crime western film starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne and Walter Pidgeon loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War.
